A French star scored a jaw-dropping 30-yard goal en route to her incredible 7th career Champions League title

• Lyon midfielder Amandine Henry scored a jaw-dropping goal during Sunday's Champions League final.
• The French national team captain hit the ball from 30 yards out into the upper 90 of the net.

Amandine Henry found the back of the net when it mattered most for European powerhouse Olympique Lyonnais.

And she did it in absolute jaw-dropping fashion.

Just six minutes into Saturday's Champions League final, the French national team captain launched a rocket from 30 yards out to put her side on the board and set the tone for the entire match against frontrunner and reigning champion Barcelona FC.

Henry won a sliding tackle against superstar Barcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas and popped up with the ball at her feet. She took one long touch into space toward the center of the field, then shocked herself, her teammates, and — most importantly — her opponents by taking the long-range shot.

Even from halfway to midfield, the 32-year-old managed to place the ball perfectly in the upper-90 of the goal.

The camera shot from behind the goal was even more staggering.

Lyon went on to score two more goals in the first 33 minutes of play, setting the stage for the star-studded French side to win its eighth Champions League title as a franchise. All eight victories have come in the last 11 years, with the club reaching the final a whopping 10 times since the 2009-2010 season.

Henry was with the club for all but one of those championship runs. And thanks to her early-game heroics this time around, the midfielder earned her second Champions League Final Player of the Match award of her already-illustrious career.

After the match, Henry boasted that her team's victory in Turin was "the best title we could win with our club" — and she has plenty of Champions League championship wins to choose from — because she and her teammates were "not the favorites." And even though Barcelona had been considered the class of women's soccer all season, Sunday's match allowed Lyon to reestablish itself as the most fearsome side in Europe.

When it comes to that incredible goal just a few minutes in, Henry admitted that she "took a chance" by striking the ball from so far out.

"I was very lucky it ended up in the back of the net," Henry said, per a video posted by DAZN's Twitter. "I am really happy because it allowed us to get right into the match and to dominate right away. It allowed us to win afterwards."